On Nov 24, 2007 1:21 PM, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stalin, as he prefers to be called, is no capitalist running dog, the > > capitalist paper makes clear. His father was an ardent Marxist and Stalin's > > assault on Chavez comes from the left, not the right. Chavez, say the > > students, is becoming a power-hungry authoritarian instead of an > > egalitarian socialist. The students and the Catholic Church have emerged as > > Chavez's last remaining vocal opponents, notes the paper. < >
Hunh? If daddy was a Marxist, sonny boy probably isn't, My guess is he is psychologically projecting his own "power-hungry authoritarian" (read 'opportunistic, else why mention daddy at all) tendencies on Chavez. ...And since when are Marxism & egalitarian socialism in any way related in modern western political thought? In America, they tend to have no connection whatsoever, with a number of dialogs I've observed on Marxist lists immediately coming to mind